Rising star Arielle Holmes has joined Shia LaBeouf in American Honey, the latest film from Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights director, Andrea Arnold. The film centers on a runaway teenage girl who joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard-partying, law-bending and young love. Holmes recently starred in the award-winning drama Heaven Knows What (opening in DC this weekend), and her chance discovery for that film mirrors, in some small way, Arnold's discovery of Katie Jarvis years ago. So this could turn out to be an unforgettable collaboration. Production on the film is already underway. [Deadline]
Only last month Leslie Mann was set for her first truly headlining role in Bad Moms, a comedy produced by her husband Judd Apatow and directed by The Hangover writers Jon Lucas & Scott Moore. Well, you can forget that. Deadline says Mann and Apatow have now departed the project because it couldn't fit into their tight schedule. So now the search is on for a new star with the summer start date still in place. The story follows an "overworked and exhausted mother who joins forces with two other “bad moms” to challenge the helicopter parents that rule over their kids’ school."
